BOOK AND DAGGER How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Narrator Saskia Maarleveld maintains a deliberate pace in this packed history of America's newborn spy network during WWII. The unexpected heroes are librarians, professors, and other bookish types who were experts in gathering--and fabricating--information. And what a story Maarleveld tells. Even familiar episodes like the planning of D-Day take on new fire and urgency in this lively narrative, so crowded with insider detail, so expertly rendered by a performer who never seems to draw a breath or pause over a proper French noun. Rarely are spy histories, or even novels, this detailed and exact. For listeners who might like to go undercover in a foreign land--or possibly set up a spy network of their own: Here's how. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2024]